# VitePress

Static site generator built on Vite and Vue that turns Markdown content into content-centric websites.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/vitepress/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-18
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-18

## Record

### Links

- home: https://vitepress.dev
- repository: https://github.com/vuejs/vitepress
- docs: https://vitepress.dev/guide/what-is-vitepress

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Vue team
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2020
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: node 22
- basedOn: vite, vue

### Content

- contentStore: flat-file
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: vue, markdown
- i18n: built-in i18n via locale directories

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static
- renderingModes: static, spa
- installMethod: npm add -D vitepress@next, then npx vitepress init

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2025-08-05

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 18417
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 850580
- contributors: 438
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: 638
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 5497
- dependentPackages: 2145

### Sources

- urls: https://github.com/vuejs/vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://github.com/vuejs/vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://vitepress.dev/guide/what-is-vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- firstRelease: https://registry.npmjs.org/vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- maintainer: https://vitepress.dev/guide/what-is-vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- maintainer: https://vitepress.dev/ (read 2026-10-18)
- maintainerType: https://vitepress.dev/guide/what-is-vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137265963 (read 2026-10-18)
- category: https://vitepress.dev/guide/what-is-vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- basedOn: https://registry.npmjs.org/vitepress/latest (read 2026-10-18)
- language: https://github.com/vuejs/vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- runtime: https://vitepress.dev/guide/getting-started (read 2026-10-18)
- runtimeMin: https://vitepress.dev/guide/getting-started (read 2026-10-18)
- contentStore: https://vitepress.dev/guide/what-is-vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- templating: https://vitepress.dev/guide/what-is-vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- i18n: https://vitepress.dev/guide/i18n (read 2026-10-18)
- renderingModes: https://vitepress.dev/guide/what-is-vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- installMethod: https://vitepress.dev/guide/getting-started (read 2026-10-18)
- license: https://github.com/vuejs/vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- license: https://vitepress.dev/ (read 2026-10-18)
- licenseModel: https://vitepress.dev/ (read 2026-10-18)
- currentMajor: https://registry.npmjs.org/vitepress/latest (read 2026-10-18)
- latestReleaseDate: https://registry.npmjs.org/vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/vuejs/vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/vuejs/vitepress/contributors?anon=true (read 2026-10-18)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/vitepress (read 2026-10-18)
- runsAs: https://vitepress.dev/guide/getting-started (read 2026-10-19)
- httpArchiveSites: https://cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/vitepress (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/vitepress (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

VitePress is a static site generator built on Vite and Vue that turns Markdown files into documentation-style websites. Pages are written in Markdown and can embed Vue components, and locales are set up as directories. The build produces static files that any static host can serve. VitePress succeeds VuePress 1. The Vue team's guide names it as the team's long-term recommended static site generator.

## Worth knowing

The install guide installs the pre-release line from npm's next tag, so the docs describe a newer version than the latest stable release.

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